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FBI Ends B.I.G. Investigation
There's still no justice and no peace for the Notorious B.I.G.
The FBI recently closed an 18-month investigation of the 1997 shooting incident that left the rap icon dead, leaving no resolution for the murdered rapper's family.
Although the LAPD is still looking into the murder of the rapper also known as Biggie Smalls (and born Christopher Wallace), the FBI closed the book on its investigation in January after Louis J. Caprino, head of the criminal division of the FBI's Los Angeles office, examined existing evidence amassed by the agency and determined that there was "no basis for prosecution" at this time.
According to the Los Angeles Times, an additional reason for the investigation shutdown might be tied to an FBI agent's perceived coziness with Biggie's mother's legal team (Voletta Wallace is suing the LAPD over Biggie's death). The agent, Philip J. Carson, allegedly traded tips and leads with Wallace attorneys.
FBI regulations forbid agents from sharing investigative information with civil attorneys.
The bureau's inconclusive investigation leaves many unanswered questions regarding Smalls' violent death in a hail of bullets the night of Mar. 9, 1997.
The "Hypnotize" rapper, then 24, was gunned down in his car after leaving a music-industry party at Los Angeles' Petersen Automotive Museum.
Several theories have been explored in articles, books and documentaries since, including the widely held belief that the Brooklyn rap king's death is somehow tied to an East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry.
West Coast hip-hop star Tupac Shakur (and a friend-turned-enemy of Biggie's) was killed in Las Vegas the year before Wallace was shot, and some point to Smalls' death as payback for Shakur's death, via a third party tapped by infamous rap kingpin Suge Knight, for whom Tupac recorded and who was riding shotgun the night of Tupac's murder. In any case, the two rappers' deaths are inexorably intertwined in the minds of many.
But the FBI probe yielded nothing, at least publicly, directly connecting Smalls' death with Shakur's, per the Los Angeles Times.
A more advanced theory that Smalls was gunned down at Knight's behest by an associate of former LAPD cop David A. Mack also failed to bear out, even though the bureau tapped the phones of the alleged triggerman, Amir Muhammad.
That scenario is likely to be further explored in Voletta Wallace's civil lawsuit against the LAPD (expected to kick off in a Los Angeles civil court Apr. 12), despite the fact that Muhammad has been dropped from the witness list in Wallace's impending suit.
The LAPD investigated a similar theory but dismissed the three men as suspects nearly five years ago.
With no shooter charged for the crime eight years into the investigation, the elder Wallace wants answers from the LAPD and upwards of $20 million in damages for what she claims is a cover-up shielding the department's involvement in her son's murder.
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